As introduced last week, the goal of this series is to use Buddhist thought as a mirror to help better-understand Christianity. Last time we looked at the Buddha's story and how it compared to the stories of Jesus and the major prophets of Abrahamic faiths more generally. Today we’ll shift to exploring what it was … Continue reading The Good News of Non-Attachment?
It’s one of those weeks when the I didn’t feel I had much to add about the readings, especially since I just wrote extensively about the Gospel reading a couple months ago. So, if you’d like to read about the Parable of the Unjust Steward, check out my integral study of that parable from this … Continue reading A Sunday Choose Your Own Adventure
We’re at the start of a series using Buddhist teaching as a mirror to help us better understand the Gospel. But today I’d like to start by zooming out and looking at the basic canonical story of the Buddha’s life and enlightenment. We’ll see that it represents an interesting foil for both the story of … Continue reading The Buddha and the Christ
One of my favourite traditions in recent years here on the blog has been for my main Fall series to look at Christian theology through an external lens to better understand ourselves through the face of an other. This is not to ‘appropriate’ any idea as our own, but to use another worldview as a … Continue reading The Wheel and the Way: Introduction
Today is the Feast of the Holy Cross in the Church calendar. This is one of those medieval feasts that’s hard for many of us to find our way into, since it is self-consciously a celebration of a symbol instead of what it symbolizes (c.f., the Feast of the Body of Christ). But it's wonderful … Continue reading Trampling Down Death by Death: A Reflection on Numbers 21.4-9 and John 3.13-17
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